Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Thank You For Your Courage, Professor McAdams

In Modern Academia, the words “courage” and “professor”
don’t often meet together in press or in writing. The nature of the Modern
University is to punish rather than promote independent thought. You either
conform, or you don’t get tenure. You nod your head in agreement with the
consensus of the elite, or you get your head knocked off.

I have never seen such madcap, politicized monomania as the
intellectual autarchy of the illiberal university. This is America, not Cuba,
Russia, or North Korea. What has happened to the university? The administrators
have chosen to abide by the bidding of the Marxist-Leninists, who took over the
halls of the Ivory Tower five decades ago. Cultural Marxism is the militant
rage. The Frankfurt School is now the Frankfurt Globalist Movement.

And the University is the incubator, the central force for
this destruction.

Now it’s a pinnacle of ruthless despotism, committed to an
idealized, read FALSE narrative of radical equality, which demands that the
world work a certain way, or else.

Should the rest of us care about a bunch of petulant nerds?

Yes!

This destructive insanity has flooded Mainstream America. We
have a cultural elite that wants to force women to accept men sharing the same
bathroom with them. The President down to his Democratic minions want to seize
not just our guns, but our rights to speak.

We even have institutions embracing segregation once again.
Just look at the “Black Only” dorms dotting the college landscapes. I wonder
when someone will take the time to remind that white men (and women) shed
blood, sweat, and tears to end slavery and to enforce the civil pride of
natural rights for all men.

Grievance and entitlement are the new normal at the American
University. Disagreement is more than inconvenient. Now it hurts! Anyone who
disagrees with the University Code, the New World Order of radical, left-wing
progressivism is shouted down, silenced, and eliminated.

The attacks on freedom of speech are particularly telling,
and the protectors of this New Tyranny have overtaken the levers of power. But
there are a few professors who still believe in freedom of speech. They deserve
recognition for their courage, because their stance can cost them their
careers.

One of them is Professor John McAdams of Marquette
University.

The background of this story should be well-known by now. He
defended the rights of one student to question gay marriage in a philosophy of
ethics course. When he confronted the graduate instructor after class, he
stated his beliefs in natural marriage. Instead of welcoming the different
point of view, the instructor shamed the students as “homophobic,” then
suggested that the student drop the class.

REALLY!

The spurned student reached out to McAdams, who defended the
student and in a blog slammed the graduate
instructor for this intolerant behavior. After all, isn’t a university supposed
to be about free and open inquiry? Let’s not forget that the professor
expressed his views.

Instead of investigating the graduate instructor, the
University went after the professor.

UNREAL.

He was placed on leave, then terminated.

Trigger-warnings are for snowflakes, you know, but not for
robust academics like McAdams who can tolerate another person’s opinion.

They didn’t give him any warning!

Despite this travesty, and the controversy which sought to
shut him up, then shut him down.

But McAdams wouldn’t back down, recant his views, or conform
to the petty political correctness of Modern Academia. He sued the university,
and he continued to voice his opinions, and defend your right to voice your
opinions.

Within days of his suspension, emails from all over the
country came to the Professor offering their support. Even liberal writers and
gay marriage proponents supported the courageous professor and denouncing the
Catholic university for suspending him. Hover over that word “Catholic”, and
let that fact sink it. Marquette the Catholic institution fired a professor for
defending a student, who in turn defends the Biblical, natural definition of
marriage. Isn’t that what a Catholic institution should applaud rather than
reject?

And yet …

McAdams gets cast out of this Garden of Intolerance. His
exit is no shame for him, however, but for the once-might Academic tradition of
this country.

For two years, this controversy has danced around in the
press and among conservatives.

“First of all, I enjoy a good fight,” he says. “It is also a
matter of principle. That is some people need to be taught a lesson; people who
think they can run rough shod over people’s academic freedom.”

How far will he take his fight to get job back? “As far as
necessary,” he says, “including a lawsuit.”

I hope that another, truly liberal–as in free–institution
hires him very soon! It would be the principled thing to do.

Thank you again, Prof. McAdams. Your courage in the face of
anti-academic bigotry is inspiring. More people need to hear you story, and
follow your example!